Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-05-14
COAST ITEMS.

The low license party carried the town
election at Livermore Tuesday.
The Firs, Regiment, Oregon State Militia
is to have a $4,000 armo-y at Portland.
The Yuma Indians Tuesday cremated
their aged chief, Pascual, at Yuma, A. T.
Laborers on the Northern Pacific at Taco
ma, w. T., struck for Sc day Tuesday, an
advance of rs cents.
Indian horse-stealing expeditions are oper
ating along the Teton and about the Sun
river country in Montana.
Richard Kitchens, who was charged at
Nevada City with numbering his mistress,
has been discharged from custody.
The salmon catch at Astoria, Or, is still
small, owing to cool, rainy weather. The
pack TO date is about IS, 900 cases.
Detectives now claim they are on the
right trail OF the Papago Train robbers. The
next two days will decide the case.
A new ore vein has been found near the
Clipper claim on the Gold Belt, Wood
River, Idaho. The ore prospects between
$40 and 500 per ton.
Alexander Woods, a colored barber oi
Pocotello, Idaho, killed his wife, stole Q
horse and ran away. He was captured
Monday at Corinne, Utah.
The miners at Hamburg and vicinity, or
the klamath river are putting in wing dams
and expect to get ready for hosting pay
gravel in month or six weeks.
The total consumption of PETROLEUM fol
fuel in Los Angeles alone is, in round num-
b.is. 100 barrels day. BY next Winter il
is expected 10 be double this amount
A good deal of prospecting is being done
to the norlhward of Flowery District, and
ore has been found that will pay we'll fol
working at the present price of reduction.
Six cases Of insanity were reported a
Tucson, A. T., last week. They are be
ieved to result from earthquake fright, as
the parties nearly all have much to say OF
the subject.
Salinas is much excited over the trial of I
man charged with cattle stealing. The
trouble, it is claimed, has grown out of the
last election, when the complaint in the cas-,
was defeated for County Recorder.
Mrs. Crocker and Mrs. Ashe are to tax,
the child Alma at once to Europe, where
she will be kept until she becomes OF agt
TO choose whether she will live with he
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claimed to be accurate.
John Parker, a resident OF Bloomfield
Iowa, and owner of fine farm adjoining
Butte City, Colusa county, has cut up hi
farm into town lots and small tracts for or
chards and vineyards and now offer them /,
those seeking small homes.
The Dane, William Hansen, living abou
twenty five miles below Monterey, on tn
coast, and who was shot last wee k by par
lies, it is supposed who wanted his lane
claim, has recovered sufficiently to make I
statement, and arrests will soon follow.
Mr. Harris, the Superintendent Of tht
work of enlarging the tunnel at Big Bend
is of the opinion that the work viii b
completed in August, and that mining il
the channel will be commenced in the Fall
The tunnel, when fist completed, wa
found inadequate to carry oil the volume o
water.
Gravel that will pay about 81 day 70
rocking has been found near Steamboat
Washoe county. Five or six Americans an'
TWO or three Mexicans are al work in th
diggings Could sufficient water be had 70
sIulcing. it is said the ground would pay $
or $40 day. The diggings were found b
a couple Of Mexieans.